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Quebec, as it was and as it is, or, A brief history of the oldest city in Canada, from its foundation to the present time : with a guide for strangers to the different places of interest within the city, and adjacent thereto
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Now that our first boxes of 2018 are officially out in the post and we are excitedly watching our social media accounts like hawks for people's unboxing photos, we thought that we would post about the beautiful items we included in our December Winter Fairytales box.
We think that there is nothing more Christmassy than a book that is both wintery and magical, so we were thrilled to have the chance to include these two amazing books. Seriously guys, the world building in our December reads is just so rich and full of folklore and ancient magic and the writing is beautiful! As soon as we read The Bear in the Nightingale and its sequel The Girl in the Tower, we were already full of ideas for the perfect items to include in our box! We had the chance to work with some brilliant designers, illustrators and… marshmallow makers last month and we'd like to thank them all for all their hard work and for helping make our Winter Fairytales box one of our favourite Book Box Club boxes so far!
Thank you to our lovely subscriber @amandasafterword for the unboxing photos.
The Bear and the Nightingale & The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden: In the wintery wilderness of Northern Russia, free spirit Vasya doesn't suit the life laid out for her. With her strange looks and bold ways, the people of the neighbourhood think her a witch, but Vasya knows that the forest is home to creatures that others are blind to and now the entire village is in danger. Interwoven with magic and fairytales, our featured reads for December will take you on a snowy fantastical adventure!
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We have loved seeing all of your unboxing photos, blogs, stories, tweets and videos for this box and knowing that so many of you had a magical Book Box Club box under your Christmas trees filled us with a serious case of the warm fuzzies. Thank you to everyone for sharing, spreading the word and being so lovely – all of your amazing feedback was the perfect Christmas present!


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I'm astonished that Senator McCain has to sit by his vice presidential candidate to defend her statements, blaming the press for Governor Palin's clearly stated position about Pakistan, a contradiction to what McCain said in the debate Friday. McCain calls a question by a voter a "gotcha journalism" tactic.
Palin's position, that cross-border strikes are necessary, is exactly what McCain condemned as naive and dangerous. Either she's naive and dangerous or McCain's characterization of Senator Obama is mere posturing.
We get to decide. Do you want these people running the country?
James K. Galbraith writes in the Washington Post, arguing that, with all the big investment banks gone already, the best move is to fund the FDIC to cover all deposits and just be done with it. Then, take steps to shore up local governments.
It's a thoughtful alternative to buying bad paper. Read, think.
Now he's out of the race. McCain should continue the debates, regardless of what he wants to spend his days doing. It is essential to our democracy that we hear from the candidates about all the issues.
If Senator McCain wants to suspend his campaign, he should drop out of the race and let someone who wants to answer to the American people run in his place. That would rule out Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate, as well.
It may be needed, but the bail-out shouldn't come in the form of a give-away to the banks, Congress says.
This is when the vaunted "bipartisanship" Republicans demand at every turn actually becomes a real debate and negotiation. In this case, the only people in favor of the bail-out in its current form are the Bushies. This is why we need a strong Congress, not a unitary executive.
When it comes to economics, reality and the story we tell ourselves about it have divorced, leaving us like confused children to figure out everything for ourselves.
The bail-out of Wall Street will merely compound the problems that got us here, because the program leaves the banks free of the cost of their junk assets while depriving the buyers of those assets—that's us, the taxpayers—with any of the benefits of ownership. As planned, the bail-out will simply transfer paper around. That, my friends, is the recipe for a moral hazard. But not the moral hazard of government intruding in markets, rather it is the temptation on bankers' parts to do it all again, because they are insured against the loss. Or, more to the point, they will not have paid the price for their misdeeds this time around.
In reality, the survivors of the economic meltdown haven't been exposed yet. Fired bankers will go home and relax, because they have a lot of money. The rest of the country is simply waiting for the glacial pace of erosion to accelerate into their lives like a continental flood when the ice sheet disintegrated. Since those folks are now going to spend $1 trillion to "save" some banks from bad paper, which carry virtually no upside and a lot of risk that the paper will become valueless, the severity of that eventual economic cataract will only get worse.
On the other hand, if that $1 trillion represented real value, which the government could then sell at some future date, taxpayers would, at minimum, have some influence over the disposition of all the property that banks acquired during this spending spree. We've heard so much about "the ownership society" over the past seven years. Why, now that we're dishing out another trillion dollars, are we not getting some ownership, as the government did when it bailed out AIG last week?
Everyone is expecting a recovery now. The market was disappointed today, to the tune of 300 points, that people are debating the terms of the bail-out before simply handing over all that cash. How can we be so presumptuous? Granted, the bail-out is necessary, but not necessarily in the form it takes under Henry Paulson and George W. Bush, a banker and a, well, "executive president," who are bailing out their base.
If the bail-out goes ahead as planned, I'd hold on tight for a double-dip, when Wall Street comes begging for more help.
When the banking crisis is completely wrapped up, several years from now, we are going to be looking at another trillion dollars in U.S. debt, at least. That's money coming out of everyone's pockets to pay for the losses generated by a very small, very rich group of people. I do think it is high time the U.S. government step in, but we would not have gotten to this point if the Bush administration and Republican economic policy over the past 28 years hadn't drastically reduced the government's oversight of markets. Earlier, the energy markets proved this, but the Republicans pushed on with deregulation, a la Glass-Steagall, which set the stage for this banking meltdown.
The cost of intelligent regulation is far lower than the social insurance for billionaires we're paying today. President Bush and his supporters, including Senator McCain, despite his howling and growling about the markets as "casinos" during the past couple days (not to mention his idea that we need yet another U.S. agency to handle this crisis—the essence of short-term thinking), should acknowledge that they got us into this and that they are borrowing on our children's futures to get their rich friends out of it.
We're at a point where capitalism is only a seeming capitalism, like the communism of the Soviet Union, where the rich get all the benefits of shared risk, while the rest of us simply go back to work to pay off their debts.
If this were a real marketplace under the rule of law, lots of bankers would be led out in handcuffs and the perpetrators of these financial disasters would be broke and begging on the street, just as they've said "economic failures" need to do all these years. Let's see these fatcats bootstrap their existence for a change.
If McCain would like to convene a panel of experts to determine what's wrong with the U.S. financial system (as though we don't know already–unrestricted greed has sapped the system of tremendous reserviors of value), he ought to listen to this pane about health care now. The McCain health plan is more of the same, which will only magnify the problem.
"from all the anti Palin post, I gather that the Liberal Extremist (Democrats) are still full of hate and anti American attitudes. If you don't love American and all this country provides you(security, freedom etc.) leave, go away. There are countries out there that are full of hate and never protect their freedom and security, that would love to have you.
It is sickening. That is ugly, unamerican and misrepresents the majority of Americans and Republicans. But it is increasingly the message being sent by the far right. We've moved from talk of liberal extremists to lumping all Democrats into a category that should leave the country. When I refer to members of the far right, I mean people who want to legislate the way we live, not someone who should leave the country. With this kind of rhetoric, they should not be honored with elective office. And we should mark that this is the language of the Palin proponents, who are resorting to rabid attack on any honest effort to ask her a question.
Voters have every right to ask Gov. Palin any question as they judge her ability to make decisions that will impact every American. Anyone who thinks the McCain campaign's strategy of insulating her from the press is correct is missing the point of democracy: Elections are a test. When you win, you don't get to take over and run the country, you get to lead the government. If this kind of hateful response from moralityusa is what can be expected in response to our questions about Sarah Palin, the election is a fight for the American future.
Doors to avenues of thought and freedom of opportunity are closing all around us. We have to kick them open by voting against this kind of closed-minded hatred of other Americans and everything that makes this country great.


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Position Statement – Benetton Group in Bangladesh: the facts
What happened in Dhaka almost a year ago was a terrible tragedy for which we are all still shaken and which led us to start working immediately to help the victims and make sure that such disasters never happen again. We have always been 100% committed to making sure that all the most important rights are respected wherever we operate, even though sometimes we find ourselves faced with extremely complex local situations.
For this reason, Benetton Group would like to clarify its position with respect to often-raised questions regarding its presence in Bangladesh:
– Benetton Group has never had any kind of continuous relationship with the suppliers that operated in the Rana Plaza building.
– New Wave Style, a local supplier, only received occasional orders, amounting to 0.06% of our production.
– Even though these were only occasional and very small orders, before starting supplies we performed an audit, which revealed no problems related to workers' conditions. Only in a later phase did we obtain further information that indicated that the conditions to continue the working relationship with New Wave Style no longer existed. As a result we took the initiative to terminate all relationships even before the tragic accident.
Xổ số miền nam chủ nhật– All the suppliers to Benetton Group and related companies are on the list of firms that will be audited under the auspices of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord will touch on with its auditing programme. The Accord is a five-year commitment by all stakeholders involved which works towards significantly improving fire and building safety as well as working conditions in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh.
– As to why we have remained in Bangladesh, we would like to reiterate that immediately after the tragic events of Rana Plaza, the government of Bangladesh publicly called on companies not to leave the country: the textile sector accounts for about 30% of its GDP. That is why companies like ours have chosen to stay, also and above all to stimulate and accompany a change that is undoubtedly necessary. It was this that led us to be advocates and among the earliest signatories of the Bangladesh Fire & Building Safety Accord. On behalf of all signatories, the Accord is also conducting over 1,500 rigorous inspections, meaning – just to be clear – that the benefits not only affect those who work for our suppliers but also extend to those who work for companies that are not part of the Accord.
Xổ số miền nam chủ nhật– As for the support provided to the victims of the Rana Plaza collapse, we immediately acted alongside BRAC*, the largest nongovernmental organisation (NGO) in the world in terms of people receiving help, and, more importantly, an NGO founded and based in Bangladesh since 1972. In addition to this, we were at the same time proponents of the round table created for the victims' fund, which also involved Clean Clothes/Abiti Puliti, and we were one of four companies that coordinated it. We ended our involvement in the round table when we realised that times were lengthening and we were coming to the point of envisaging a purely voluntary contribution system, one which was not at all proportionate to each company's presence in Bangladesh. We did not share this principle because it does not take into consideration the fact that companies generate production risks also in terms of the size of their orders to suppliers. We therefore decided to further concentrate our funds and efforts to support the victims and their families on the programme developed by BRAC, allocating resources so that those who had tragically lost arms, legs or hands could be taken care of and return, if possible, to something like a normal life. With BRAC, we also activated a further programme of support initiatives for 350 victims and their families, with a focus on those who had lost their only source of financial support.
Xổ số miền nam chủ nhật* BRAC – the world's largest development organisation and a global leader in creating opportunities for the poor – started as a limited relief operation in 1972, in a remote village of Bangladesh. It has since spread antipoverty solutions to 11 other developing countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Organising the poor using communities' own human and material resources, BRAC catalyses lasting change, creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. BRAC does this with a holistic development approach geared toward inclusion, using tools like healthcare, education, microfinance, disaster management, environment and climate change, legal services, community empowerment and many more. Currently, more than 135 million people are being reached through BRAC staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering in the hundreds of thousands. BRAC employs 45,918 regular staff and over 69,434 project staff. Its annual budget is 572 million USD (2011).
Benetton Group in Bangladesh: the facts


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October 28, 2019 2020 Candidates Klobuchar
The Jerusalem Post: Klobuchar At J Street: Trump Chose Russia Over Israel
By Omri Nahimas / October 28, 2019
Minnesota Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar said on Sunday that the US withdrawal from Syria is bad for Israel.
"When you think of it from an Israeli perspective, and you think of it from the perspective of our allies, once again, this president has chosen to let Russia have a lead and then has again backed away from our allies," she said Sunday at J Street's National Conference.
Klobuchar is known in the Jewish community for being the only of seven presidential hopefuls who in February voted with AIPAC on an anti-BDS bill, which consolidated $38 billion in defense assistance for Israel while protecting states that penalize businesses that boycott Israel. The entire caucus voted 25-22 in favor of the bill.
In February, JTA named her as the "go-to Democrat for the Orthodox."
But while Klobuchar is not a fundamentalist on is separating church and state, she told J Street that she believes Republicans are aiming to divide and undermine bipartisan support for Israel.
"It just showed to me what Mitch McConnell is trying to do all the time: Instead of bringing people together for support of Israel on a bipartisan basis he and president Trump are always looking for those wedges, a way to do things that creates wedges, instead of bringing people together," the senator said. "I think it has been very negative. And I'm not just talking about one vote. I'm talking about how [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's] visit was handled, as everyone remembers that.
"I'm talking about how [US President Donald] Trump has supported some of the prime minister's moves and claims during the election that I disagreed with," she said. "And I think all of this is resulting in a loss of support for Israel. That's very bad. As someone that views Israel as our beacon of democracy, I think it is important that we build support in the US."
She refused to say if she – like fellow democratic presidential hopefuls Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Elizabeth Warren – would be open to condition military aid to Israel on freezing building in the settlements. However, she did express her opposition to Netanyahu's promise to apply Israeli sovereignty in parts of the West Bank.
"Let me be very clear in how strongly I believe that the promise that the prime minister made during his political campaign was wrong – that he was going to annex a third of the West Bank," Klobuchar said. "Also, the Golan Heights and what he did there, I disagreed with that. I also strongly disagreed when he, at President Trump's urging, said that members of Congress couldn't even visit Israel."
She said she appreciated that J Street and AIPAC alike stood up for congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who were banned from entering the Jewish state earlier this year because they support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, but that "time and time again, we've seen actions and words that actually hurt us for moving to a two-state solution."
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Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2012-2017, published by Cisco.
just 10 per cent of the connections but nearly half of the total traffic.
Here are a few key highlights from the report.
by 2017, 7.4 EB will be video data.
connectivity and 9 per cent will have 4G connectivity.


There are just so many stunning wine labels in the market today, it only gets harder and harder to stand out at retail. That is where simplicity in design can help.
In this design we've combined the elegance of a simple idea (an escape from the mundane) with the robustness of a powerful brand image and name to separate ourselves from the competition. The Escapologie name we created is both immediate and appropriately sophisticated for the target. The rising wings forming the wine glass will be a memorable image for consumers to bring to mind as they return to the supermarket for their next purchase.


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Sonoco Releases 2021-22 Corporate Sustainability Report, Renews 2030 Commitments
August 03, 2022 06:45 ET | Source: Sonoco Products Company Sonoco Products Company
Hartsville, South Carolina, UNITED STATES
HARTSVLLE, S.C., Aug. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today released its 2021-22 Corporate Responsibility Report, renewing ambitious 2030 commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage. The Science Based Targets align with the Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to limit global warming temperatures well below -2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Beyond performance metrics, Sonoco further increased packaging sustainability and recycling with the $1.35 million acquisition of Ball Metalpack in January 2022. This expanded Sonoco's can-making franchise and sustainable product portfolio with the addition of tinplate steel packaging – the world's most recycled substrate. Funds for the acquisition came from $1.2 billion in certified Green Bonds, one of the largest sustainable offerings to date in the U.S. packaging sector.
"We believe that we can grow our global sustainable packaging business while we work to lessen our impact on the environment," said Howard Coker, President and CEO. "Our journey to achieve these mutually beneficial goals continued over the past year despite unprecedented head winds from supply chain disruptions, inflation and the continuing effects of the pandemic."
Nearing completion is a $125 million investment to upgrade Sonoco's Hartsville Mill complex, including the conversion of a corrugated medium machine into a state-of-the-art, 180,000 ton-per-year uncoated recycled paper (URB) mill. The initiative, known as Project Horizon, enables URB production at the lowest cost worldwide and creates an estimated 16 percent reduction in electricity consumption and emissions and 1-million-gallon reduction in water.
Last year, Sonoco also made significant progress toward its Diversity and Inclusion goals despite a challenging labor market. In the US, female new hires made up 44% of talent while 34% belonged to a minority group. Efforts to reduce environmental social and governance risks have led to Sonoco's top ranking in Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for the packaging sector, a mention in Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies for the fourth consecutive year and a spot in Newsweek's list of America's Most Responsible Companies.
Download our 2021-22 Corporate Responsibility Report: Better Packaging. Better Life. Building a Better World for detailed guidelines used to measure the economic, environmental and social standards of the Company.
About Sonoco
Founded in 1899, Sonoco (NYSE: SON) is a global provider of consumer, industrial, healthcare and protective packaging. With annualized net sales of approximately $5.2 billion, the Company has approximately 22,000 employees working in more than 300 operations in 32 countries, serving some of the world's best-known brands in some 85 nations. Sonoco is committed to creating sustainable products, services and programs for our customers, employees and communities that support our corporate purpose of Better Packaging. Better Life. The Company was ranked first in the Packaging Sector on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 2022 as well as being included in Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies for the third-consecutive year. For more information, visit www.sonoco.com.
Lisa Weeks


As you begin the process of purchasing or selling one of the biggest investments of your life, contracting a certified Pasadena home inspection company may be among the wisest choices you can make. The role of a home inspection company is often overlooked by buyers and home sellers during a real estate purchase. However, on this webpage we will outline the reasons that enlisting the services of a reputable firm yourself might just be the wisest choice you make as you negotiate a very large deal. Here at PrimeFirst Inspections, we hold ourselves to the best standards when it involves applying the best practices of the house inspection industry. Amongst Pasadena home inspection companies, our employees are unrivaled whens it come to training, certifications, and most important, client satisfaction. An important ingredient of our hiring process is identifying employees whose passion for distinct service is unquestionable. Not solely by what they say, but by what their prior customers tell us.
PrimeFirst Inspections takes a somewhat unusual position by most firms, in that we are proud to not be on any preferable home inspectors list. You won't hear our name recommended by any Pasadena mortgage loan provider, general contractor, or real estate agent. You heard that right ... we are proud to grow our business through referrals and we turn away any kind of opportunities to become favored Pasadena home inspectors. We have seen where being a preferred Pasadena home inspector brings with it an unethical "I'll help you, if you help me" relationship.
Very few Pasadena home inspection companies are proud to not be on a desired vendors list, but PrimeFirst Inspections stands by our fundamental principle of an independent third-party inspection. The Pasadena, TX customer's stake is the only interest that we are securing. Certainly not that of a bank or builder. No matter if you are building a new house, buying a pre-owned home,or about to offer your existing residence, safeguarding your financial stake is the driving force behind each and every client we serve.
Please have a look at the remainder of this webpage and find out how a trusted Pasadena Texas home inspector will be your best friend as you experience this enormous undertaking of purchasing or selling off real estate.
Prior to closing on your new house, many Pasadena, TX home loan lenders will need an inspection. This buyers inspection provides the lending institution with reasonable assurance that the collateral for your new loan is a strong investment. A 30-year mortgage is not smart if your home has concerns and it might collapse in 10 years. They don't care if some kitchen appliances do not work. Lots of loan providers might even recommend a particular Pasadena, TX house inspection company that they have worked with in the past. They may claim that their recommendation will give you the best rate.
It is very important to comprehend the goal of the lender, because what seems a good gesture might be a threat to your financial interests. Let's consider this objective from their perspective.
Top priority # 1 for your loan provider is whether they could possibly liquidate your Pasadena Texas property and recover the loan in case of default. If no significant problems are found, the lending institution or home builder has no desire for you to see a report that makes you doubt your purchase. Reliable home inspection programs include a check-list of over 500 review items, so it would be easy and convenient to not point out small details that could call into question the quality of the Pasadena TX home.
Ungrounded electrical outlets. Leaking ducts. Breezy windows. Recalled home appliances. This is a smaller example of items that might be conveniently overlooked.
PrimeFirst Inspections is the name to call when you are ready to start your Pasadena, TX home inspection process with an independent home inspector. Your lending institution should be comfortable with you working with any certified Pasadena TX home inspector, or they may not be watching out for your best interest.
Selling your home can be an anxious period as often your new home purchase has already closed and you are stuck in a game of cat-and-mouse with your Pasadena realtor to get your current home sold. You have to move quickly however you also want top dollar. Time is money, and by no fault of their own, your realtor will certainly never share your stress. After all, their commission is not aggressively connected to how soon they sell your Pasadena Texas house.
While your realtor may be an expert marketer for your Pasadena TX house, there are two actions you can take to help that process: a home warranty & pre-listing home property inspection.
Pre-listing inspections are popular among older homes; however, even more recent homes can gain from these inspections. And the benefit can be found in two ways. Sales price and speed to close. In fact, home listings with Pasadena TX inspection reports typically sell 12 days quicker and for $2,200 more.
The reason for these benefits is obvious. The very first benefit comes as you uncover any challenging areas that may be later discovered at the time of the purchaser's inspection.
But typically, you prefer to get those issues fixed so they won't hold up the close. Given that PrimeFirst Inspections is working on your behalf, you can be assured that there will be no surprises when the buyer's inspector performs their evaluation in the future.
The second benefit not used very often is the chance to affordably and easily get a home warranty policy during the listing period at no cost to you. Many house owners are surprised to learn of the low-cost (and even no-cost) choices for getting a home service warranty policy while your Pasadena Texas home is on the market (essentially a free home warranty for as long as 6 months).
If there are any major system or appliance breaks while your house is listed, the warranty will cover the expense because they want the next homeowner's future policy. Furthermore, when you have a home service warranty inspection, this repair work may even include things like expensive HVAC units. This is actually a very comparable process as the one year home warranty inspections that happen near the end of the very first year after a brand-new home construction.
Then you have the choice to pre-pay for additional years of home warranty for your buyer. This is totally optional, so it is your option if you want to add that expense into the closing or if it is a factor in negotiations. You can also just allow the policy to end at the time of closing and you owe nothing ... even if there have been claims paid out during the listing time frame. I hear you, it's a heck of a deal.
If you're like me, sounds like a win-win ... this is absolutely something you ought to talk about with PrimeFirst Inspections.


Why don't I have the option to add custom ticket fields to the Web Widget?
It must be editable for end-users.
It can't be a regex, credit card, date or multi-select custom field type.
For more information, see our full Web Widget documentation.
Note: If you only have a custom credit card, regex or date field, the option to add a custom field to your Web Widget will not show up at all.
it doesn't appear to allow drop down list type fields to be included either. is that intended but not documented?
We also need the priority (system) field to be editable by end-users in the web widget forms, but it's not showing up in the widget. Is that intentional? We did actually get a custom drop-down field to show up in the widget, fwiw.
"Those and date field are known gaps. We are intentioned to add them at some point but I don't have an ETA."
Thank you for following up, Nicole.


PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – This week's Taste with Tori takes viewers to a not-so-typical sandwich shop in Center City. It's a creative and cool spot, putting twists on your classic favorites.
The Middle Child is a sandwich shop where everything stacked is served with a smile.
And, doing things different, fun and original is synonymous with that stand out sibling in the family.
"I'm a middle child and I had to make a name for myself somehow that's for you mom," said ??
Chef and owner Matt Cahn says you can count on the old school Philly spot for counter classics or something new school and a little kooky.
They're not the only ones having fun. Prepare your taste buds to feel like they're in a bounce house when you try their fluffy egg sandwich with cooper sharp and arugula.
CBS 3's Vittoria Woodill recommends trying the Phoagie. Wondering what a Phoagie is?
A tip of their hat to a Vietnamese staple.
"We basically start to make the soup, make that the spread for the bread. It's like an old school Philly hoagie but when you bite into it, it tastes like Pho," said Cahn.
Don't forget about the Classic Rueben.
"That pickled tang from the sauerkraut, buttery crispy rye, corn beef is so good," said CBS 3's Vittoria Woodill.
The Middle Child is located at 248 South 11th Street in Center City.


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Sport Euro 2016
Miracle men Iceland book last 16 spot against England
Iceland 2 Austria 1
Iceland players celebrate a goal by Iceland's Arnor Ingvi Traustason during the Euro 2016 Group F soccer match between Iceland and Austria
Simon Peach
June 22 2016 7:11 PM
Iceland, the smallest country to ever grace a major tournament, will face England in the Euro 2016 last-16 after securing a remarkable late win against Austria.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/euro-2016/miracle-men-iceland-book-last-16-spot-against-england-34824996.html
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Hailing from a tiny island of just 330,000 inhabitants and unable to play outside for large chunks of the year to due to the freezing conditions, it was remarkable that the North Atlantic nation even made it to the finals.
Iceland have upset the apple cart once again, though, securing a last-gasp 2-1 win against Austria, ranked 10th in the world, thanks to Arnor Ingvi Traustason's stoppage-time effort in Paris.
Their first-ever win at a major tournament sets up a fascinating last-16 clash on Monday in Nice against England - a country approximately 165 times the size of Iceland.
The minnows threatened from the outset as Johann Gudmundsson's thunderous early effort hit the goal frame, with Jon Dadi Bodvarsson opening the scoring smartly after 18 minutes after officials missed Aron Gunnarsson stepping across the line when providing the mammoth throw that led to the opener.
Aleksandar Dragovic wasted the chance for Austria to go in level after hitting a penalty against the post, but an improved second-half display brought a goal as substitute Alessandro Schopf scored a smart solo effort.
Marcel Koller's side peppered the Iceland goal for the remaining 30 minutes yet not only failed to get the win they required but suffered a late defeat, with substitute Traustason finishing a stoppage-time break.
Ireland's crucial World Cup qualifier with Wales will not be at the Principality Stadium
Independent.ie Newsdesk The Republic of Ireland's final 2018 World Cup qualifier against Wales on Monday, October 9 will take place at Cardiff City Stadium and not the Principality Stadium.
Xabi Alonso confirms he will retire at the end of the season
Bayern Munich midfielder Xabi Alonso announced on Thursday he would retire at the end of the season, putting an end to a long and trophy-laden career that includes every major title for club and country.
Daniel McDonnell: Don't rule Roy Keane out as a contender to replace Martin O'Neill
Daniel McDonnell Picture the scene. It's a sunny afternoon in Dublin for the first major tournament game staged on Irish soil and the hosts are represented, having qualified for Euro 2020 through the usual method of a...


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Q: Область видимости у декоратора Есть такой код:
def logger(f):
    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        a = 6
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return inner
@logger
def nothing():
    print(a)

Выходит ошибка, что переменная a неопределенна, не совсем понимаю по какому принципу он ищет ее в области видимости. Можете объяснить?

A: у "декоратора" такая же область видимости что и у любого другого метода. в данном случае переменная a объявлена в методе inner и видна только в нем.
если вынести объявление переменной a из inner в logger, то a будет видна и в logger и в inner. поэтому слово декоратор я взял в ковычки, потому что декоратор это паттерн, а вопрос об области видимости вложенных методов. однако в методе nothing переменная a не будет доступна никогда, потому что он выполняется в своей области видимости.
def logger(f):
    a = ""
    print("logger:", locals())

    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        nonlocal a
        b = ""
        print("logger.inner:", locals())
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return inner

@logger
def nothing():
    c = ""
    print("nothing:", locals())

nothing()

logger: {'a': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7f981115f4d0>}
logger.inner: {'args': (), 'kwargs': {}, 'b': '', 'a': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7f981115f4d0>}
nothing: {'c': ''}

для вложенной функции inner переменные объявленные в функции logger доступны в режиме read-only. ключевое слово nonlocal в данном случае позволяет изменять переменную объявленнию на скоуп выше.
интересно, что без nonlocal переменная a не видна в locals() если она не упоминается в коде inner.
def logger(f):
    a = ""
    print("logger:", locals())

    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        b = ""
        print("logger.inner:", locals())
        print(a)
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return inner

@logger
def nothing():
    c = ""
    print("nothing:", locals())

nothing()

logger: {'a': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7faa790214d0>}
logger.inner: {'args': (), 'kwargs': {}, 'b': '', 'a': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7faa790214d0>}

nothing: {'c': ''}

def logger(f):
    a = ""
    print("logger:", locals())

    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        b = ""
        print("logger.inner:", locals())
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return inner

@logger
def nothing():
    c = ""
    print("nothing:", locals())

nothing()

logger: {'a': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7f20117c44d0>}
logger.inner: {'args': (), 'kwargs': {}, 'b': '', 'f': <function nothing at 0x7f20117c44d0>}
nothing: {'c': ''}

а вот метод nothing никакого отношения к logger и inner не имеет.

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Bayern Munich Match Awards
Post-match awards in Bayern's 5-1 win
This man is the one who makes things happen when Bayern Munich needs it.
By Davis VanOpdorp@Davis_VanOpdorp Feb 15, 2017, 11:00pm CET
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Tip of the Cap: Manuel Neuer – He did not have a lot to do in Bayern's second half explosion, but he did prevent Arsenal from getting on a scoring spell of their own at the end of the first half. The man was unlucky on Alexi Sanches's penalty, and he came up with a big stop on a shot from Mesut Özil just before the half. The defense in front of him did not look stable, but luckily for the Bayern fans watching, the buck stopped with him.
Golf Clap: Philipp Lahm – Arjen Robben should get a lot of credit for picking out the top corner for Bayern's first goal, but Lahm was just as important as well. He is still dangerous when he overlaps with Robben on the right wing, and he proved why with two brilliant assists. Lahm will go down as one of Bayern's best defenders of all time, and his offensive contributions, even at 33, is one of the main reasons why.
Standing Ovation: Robert Lewandowski – How does a player make up for conceding a penalty? A goal and an assist will do. Lewandowski was able to find more space in the penalty area than in recent games, and he certainly made it count. And that back heel...
Meister of the Match: Thiago – Whenever Bayern have a tie-shifting scoring run, Thiago seems to be involved. He was involved against Porto two years ago, involved against Juventus last year, and involved on Tuesday. Lewandowski may deserve more credit for his goal than he does, but another goal and assist easily earns him top honors.
Jersey Swap: Laurent Koscielny – Bayern had a lot of trouble early in the game for a lot of reasons, but Koscielny was one of them. He his three tackles came in dangerous areas, and Arsenal really missed him when he had to come off at the beginning of the second half.


Ten-year-old Joyce was always known as a bit of worrier. Even as a two-year-old, she seemed anxious from time-to-time, especially when life was a bit stressful. A new babysitter, a noisy birthday party, or a vacation could all trigger nervousness and crying spells, but these symptoms generally went away fairly quickly.
Imagine you're crossing a street and are almost hit by a massive Mack® truck.
You jump out of the way. Your heart is racing and pounding, you're sweating, trembling, hyperventilating, and short of breath. You feel a pit in your stomach, nausea, choking, and tightness in your chest. Your fingers and toes are tingling.


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Former world no. 1 Jennifer Capriati has Lyme´s Disease
by PRAKASH | VIEW 27381
Former world no. 1 Jennifer Capriati has revealed that she is suffering from Lyme's Disease. The three time Grand Slam champion has been strugling personally since being forced to quit the sport of tennis due to injuries a decade ago.
Capriati, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011, made the announcement to her fans on Twitter. Lyme disease is an illness caused by the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, which can be spread through the bite of certain types of ticks.
Lyme disease in humans can have serious symptoms but can be effectively treated. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the temperate zone and occurs in Europe, Asia, and throughout much of North America Does anyone know anything about Lyme disease or has been diagnosed with it? Diagnosed.
I've had it in my system for long time apparently How can this be?Cld explain injuries, intense pain physical + emotional stress Reading the literature..scary.. Please share any first hand experience from the effects for yourself or a loved one First step knowing the problem..yes I've read it's very controversial and not much drs even know about unless u catch it in time It's been a yr since I've known but too exhausted to address.i couldn't see another dr or id scream.i think Lyme makes u feel #overwhelmed What kind of person that claims to love u abandons and abuses u when u get a diagnoses for an illness? shouldn't they stand by and support? Thanks for all the feedback and support !! will keep u posted and will reach out to Sam Stosur.not to be ignored and willed away


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Pamplin City est une municipalité américaine principalement située dans le comté d'Appomattox en Virginie. Selon le recensement de 2010, Pamplin City compte .

Géographie
Selon le Bureau du recensement des États-Unis, Pamplin City s'étend en 2010 sur une superficie de . Une petite partie de la municipalité se trouve dans le comté du Prince-Édouard voisin :  pour  .

Histoire
La localité est fondée à la fin du . Elle est nommée Merriman's Shop avant d'être renommée, en 1854, en l'honneur de Nicholas Calvin Pamplin qui fit don de terres pour la construction du Norfolk and Western Railway. Située à l'intersection de deux importantes lignes ferroviaires, Pamplin City devient une ville économiquement prospère, accueillant notamment la plus importante usine de pipes en argile du pays ou du monde.

Le centre-ville de Pamplin City compte plusieurs monuments construits en 1909, après un important incendie qui poussa les élus locaux à imposer les constructions en brique. En 2014, il est inscrit sur la « liste des lieux historiques les plus en danger » par l'association Preservation Virginia.

Notes et références

Town en Virginie
Comté d'Appomattox
Comté du Prince-Édouard (Virginie)

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The College of Southern Maryland Board of Trustees at its May 15 board meeting approved the conceptual design and master plan for the college's new Regional Campus to be located on 74 acres in Hughesville. The campus will provide offerings and programs to serve the entire region in a more cost-effective and convenient way.
The master plan, as designed and presented by Grimm + Parker Architects, is designed to create a sense of community and includes five phases of growth. The first phase will be the construction of a Center for Trades and Energy Training, which has outgrown its currently leased 18,000-square-foot facility in Waldorf. To meet the growing needs of students and these programs, the college is planning a 40,000-square-foot facility at the Regional Campus.
"We serve Southern Maryland with a full-service campus in each of our counties and no one campus is more important than any other. We deliver a full range of academic programs and services; however, there are some programs that are too expensive to replicate on more than one campus, such as our trades programs and nursing and allied health. It makes much more sense to centralize these programs so residents of all three counties can take full advantage of them. This will allow us to operate in a very cost-effective manner, while being more conveniently located," CSM President Dr. Brad Gottfried said.
Other phases proposed for the campus and reflected in the master plan include a Health Science building, a Fine Arts building, a field house and relocation of the college's athletic fields as well as space to accommodate future needs. In presenting the master plan, Grimm + Parker's Senior Associate David Prevette said, "This is a beautiful piece of property with a gentle slope that has a lot of opportunity." He also noted a natural sense of wayfinding and provided opportunities for gathering into the master plan.
"It will be an impressive campus to see as you drive by, with the Health Sciences Building facing Route 5 and commanding the site similar to how the Flagship Building does at the Prince Frederick Campus for passers-by on Route 231," Gottfried said during the Trustee meeting.
In addition to campuses in La Plata, Leonardtown and Prince Frederick, CSM also runs the CTET in Waldorf, the Center for Transportation Training in La Plata, and partners with the University of Maryland, University College in operating the UMUC-CSM Waldorf Center for Higher Education.


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Best wishes to visitors to The Deletions for the silly season.
Carnivores - polish up the cutlery
and enjoy your turkeys and geese.
Vegans and vegetarians - please use your hands.
again in 2007
Pam Brown
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Michael Callaghan
Elwood stencils
Poetry blogging
A retrospective exhibition of over thirty years' work by silk-screen printing poster artist Michael Callaghan opens at the Manly Art Gallery on Friday evening.
Michael was a printmaker with Redback Graphix in Wollongong and at the (in)famous Tin Sheds Art Workshop on City Road in Sydney during its heyday.
A Survey 1967- 2006
6pm Friday 1 December
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
West Esplanade, Manly
To be opened by Ann Stephen
(curator with The Sydney Powerhouse Museum)
(Posters by Michael Callaghan)
In Elwood
I've been staying in Elwood, just south of St Kilda which is on Hobson's Bay to the south of Melbourne city. It is a generally neat suburb of leafy streets, brick bungalow-style houses and, increasingly, blocks of modern apartments. Walking to Elwood Village shopping area I pass these little stencils and this entrance to a garage in Ormond Road. They're quite different from the tougher inner-city stencil style you encounter on the more unkempt northern side of town - kind of sweet really.
On poetry blogging
Anny Ballardini editor of the multilingual poetry site fiera lingue has compiled an interesting analysis of poetry blogging as part of her project at the University of New Orleans.
IMPRO LAB
The Studio at Sydney Opera House
and De Quincey Co present
IMPRO-LAB: transparencies
IMPRO-LAB involves a collaboration with two legendary
Japanese artists, musician Sachiko M (Peril,
Player Piano) and vocalist Ami Yoshida with
renowned Australian artists: dancers Peter Fraser,
Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap and Tess de Quincey
alongside musicians Jim Denley (Machine for
Making Sense) on wind instruments, Chris
Abrahams (The Necks) on keyboards, poet/vocalist
Amanda Stewart (Machine for Making Sense),
video artist Sam James and lighting designer
Clytie Smith.
Friday 24th & Saturday 25th November
at 8.15pm
(Entry fee :Adult $30
*Concession $25)
For more info and booking click here
Really brief notes
from the Princes Highway
On the thousand kilometre drive down the east coast's Princes Highway from Sydney to Melbourne, Victoria, as we stopped off in various places I realised that a number of contemporary poets hail from the coast. One such stop was in a dairy farming town on a wide tidal river winding into a picturesque valley of farms sheltered by a distant low range - Moruya, once the childhood home of well-known poet John Tranter, friend, poetry colleague and editor of Jacket. (John's father, a teacher, farmer and soft drink manufacturer, moved the family to Moruya when John was four years old.)
Tourist brochure - Moruya
We stayed overnight in Bega, another dairy farming town in New South Wales, known for its cheese. A town associated, for me, with another friend, the poet and gardener Denis Gallagher who lived there for some time in the late 1970's/early 1980's. As most places in Bega closed for business around six p.m. and the pubs became disturbing sources of Indigenous peoples' loud existential arguing, we opted for dinner at the Bega RSL (Returned Servicemans' League) Club. It was a world unto itself - thick dark curtains covered every window to screen out daylight and summer's late sunsets and to affect, in fact, permanent evening. One huge room with a long bar and a glassed-in Keno booth on one end. The lurid green walls encased a square of rows of poker machines, smoking areas marked simply by a suspended sign that you step under from the non-smoking part of the room to the other, a pool competition with the usual chalk heiroglyphics on a blackboard and a traditional meat raffle in which a large number of locals participated, hoping to win trays of lamb chops, beef roasts and snags. All of this was accompanied by a cacophonous mix of sounds of the pokies, an enormous Sky channel sports screen, a juke box, the raffle caller and half-shouted conversations.
Bega RSL Club, November 2006
Further along the highway there were half a dozen ways of heading west towards a hinterland dairy farming town with the slightly comical, beautiful name of Bombala. The formative home town of two experimental poets Michael Farrell and Geraldine McKenzie. Something poetic in the cow's milk on the southern New South Wales coast ?
Crossing the border into Victoria you enter dark logging forests and soon arrive in the coastal towns of East Gippsland. Almost twenty years ago Laurie Duggan wrote a complex, poetic meta-text about Gippsland, from the dispossession of the Indigenous people during early settlement, gold digging, farming, through the years of world wars, rural industry, the Snowy River and its attendant myths and history, and so on, progressing up until the 1980's, also chronicling his own forbears' lives there. In The Ash Range he used journals, newspaper stories, gold prospectors' and others' letters, historical photos, topographical lithographs and his own notes and poems to compile a rich prose and poetry epic. The last poem in the book canvasses, in its final stanzas, some of the cultural ironies or clashes of 'civilization' and 'the bush' - I remember the final image of a phone booth in the middle of the bush. I regretted not having had the foresight to carry Laurie's wonderful book with me on the trip. It was packed away with the rest of our books and household stuff in storage in Melbourne.
Lakes Entrance, East Gippsland, November 2006
Moving south
It seems that I'm an itinerant. I've moved around all my life - from early on, when, due to unusual circumstances, my mother, father, brother and sister took off in separate directions when I was just eighteen months old until now - and that's many years later. According to my partner Jane and her French friends, I have what they call la bougeotte - from the verb bouger - to move, or get around. La bougeotte means having the fidgets. I don't think of it this way at all - I just seem to change address fairly often. Not including various residencies overseas, and not including various addresses in the same suburbs at different times, in chronological order, these are the places I've lived :
Seymour, Victoria. Camp Hill, Brisbane. Army Base Toowoomba, Queensland. Enoggera Army Base, Gaythorne, West Chermside, Kangaroo Point, Milton, Figtree Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland. Little Bay, Paddington, Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales. Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. Paddington, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales. Sherbrooke Forest, Monbulk, Dandenong Mountains, Victoria. Glebe, Sydney. MacDonald Valley, New South Wales. Annandale, Rozelle, Sydney. Mountain Lagoon, New South Wales. Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia. Newtown, Petersham, Camperdown, Ultimo, Bellevue Hill, Sydney. Blackheath, New South Wales and, finally, I'll say farewell from Rose Bay, Sydney.
Sultry morning, Rose Bay, Sydney
The famous saucepan (foto courtesy AWM, Canberra)
One of the stories that Rose Bay locals like to tell concerns a Japanese submarine and the damaged aluminium saucepan. It was taken from the kitchen of the place next door to where we've lived for the last four and a half years. It was demolished by a shell from the large Japanese submarine I-24. The I-24, which had launched the midget submarine in a famous attack on Sydney Harbour a week earlier, fired ten shells into the Sydney suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Woollahra, Rose Bay and Vaucluse on the night of 7-8 June 1942. The only one of these shells to explode fell outside the Yallambee Flats on Plumer Road, Rose Bay, where it caused considerable damage. Several slight injuries were suffered by civilians, and as a result, many residents of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney took up temporary residence in safer locations such as the Blue Mountains of NSW.
Yallambee, 3 Plumer Road, today
One way to enter the building at the University of Sydney that houses Badham Library, where I've worked for the past sixteen years is via the Graffiti Tunnel. I have been very fond of walking through this particular passageway and its ephemeral imagery.
Graffiti Tunnel, University of Sydney, 2006
This time, we're moving south to Melbourne.
A shipping container 'Art Box', Melbourne Arts Festival, 2005
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FULCRUM and SYNCITY
FULCRUM is proud to announce the publication of its fifth annual issue and the launch of its brand-new website.
FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Number Five, 2006, edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich * 544 pp., perfectbound, exquisitely designed, cheaply priced * SPECIAL FEATURES: Poets and Philosophers; Poetry and Harvard in the 1920s * POETRY BY Stephen Sturgeon, Ben Mazer, Jeet Thayil, Vivek Narayanan, Glyn Maxwell, Joe Green, Landis Everson, Dan Sofaer, Billy Collins, John Tranter, Andrea Zanzotto, Don Share, Sean O Riordain, Greg Delanty, Michael Palmer, Kit Robinson, Brian Henry, Pam Brown, David Lehman, John Hennessy, Charles Bernstein, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Arthur Rimbaud, X.J. Kennedy, John Crowe Ransom, Alex To, Fiona Sampson, Fan Ogilvie, Richard Fein, Joyelle McSweeney, Justin Marks, Gerard Malanga, Alexei Tsvetkov, George Bilgere, John Wheelwright, Malcolm Cowley, R.P. Blackmur, Dudley Fitts... * ESSAYS BY Eliot Weinberger, Peter H. Hare, Simon Critchley, Marjorie Perloff, Lisa Goldfarb, Pierre Joris, Raymond Barfield... * ART Esther Pullman, e.e. cummings * INTERVIEW: Andrea Zanzotto * ...AND MUCH MORE!
Kate Richards' and Sarah Waterson's
'sub_scapePROOF - a machinima'
is in SynCity
a survey show of dlux greatest hits!
Opening 6 - 8pm
Friday 20th October
australian centre for photography
Paddington, Sydney
Exhibition runs 21st Oct til 26th Nov
Tues-Fri 12md - 7pm
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Vernal stirrings
A & B, frisky
foyer's cat-sprayed dado walls
welcome mat in tatters
a neighbour announces
the first cockroach
of spring
fresh southerly change
chance of a shower
tell the dirty sacred ibis
feasting on boutique rubbish
from the skip
behind the Italian deli
to wing it
oddly elegiac
turning on the variety show's
garden power reigns supreme
blue collar sensibilities
fill each fresh poem
and minds meet
SIEV X
In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in a grossly overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia. Somewhere between the two countries the boat sank, with a terrible loss of life. 353 of the asylum-seekers drowned.The boat was known as the SIEV X.
The Australian government claimed it had no prior knowledge of the unfolding tragedy. Yet, from the beginning, government ministers and senior officials tried to mislead the Australian Senate and the community over important questions. What did the government and its agencies know about the boat and its fate, and when did they know? Did they have or should they have taken any responsibility for the tragedy? Did they have a duty of care that they shirked ?
This weekend a public memorial will be held in the Australian Capital Canberra to mark the fifth anniversary of this tragic incident:
Siev X Memorial Ceremony and Raising of the Poles
Yarralumla
2 pm Sunday 15 October 2006
Ex- Australian-ambassador to Cambodia and Poland, Tony Kevin wrote an investigative book about the sinking of the SIEV X - A Certain Maritime Incident, published by Scribe in 2004. The book revealed a disquieting record of government misconduct, including Australian Federal Police involvement in a people-smuggling 'disruption program', and an extraordinary combination of stone-walling and professed ignorance by a government dedicated to micro-managing the deterrence of asylum-seeker voyages.
Many of the victims of this disaster have family members living in Australia on temporary protection visas. This book is dedicated to them. It is also for the rest of us because, Tony Kevin argues, nothing less than a comprehensive judicial enquiry into the sinking of SIEV X will suffice if Australia is to regain its national honour.
Tony Kevin retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1998, after a thirty-year public service career. He served in the Prime Minister's Department, and was Australia's ambassador to Poland and Cambodia. He is currently an honorary visiting fellow at the ANU Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He has written extensively on Australian foreign, national security and refugee policies in Australia's national print media, including Eureka Street, Canberra Times, the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, and Australian Financial Review.
He has also recently written a critique of the proposed Australian Values and English Test that Sylvia Lawson also covered recently - blogged here on The Deletions.
A letter to the editor of The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper on this topic was published yesterday :
Language test for immigrants is a smokescreen
(October 13, 2006)
I write concerning the proposal that immigrants must speak English.
A language test on immigrants harks back to the dark days of white supremacy in Australia, and the test will prove absolutely nothing about immigrants' ability to integrate.
One of my happiest days in the Australian foreign service was December 5, 1972, with the end of the White Australia Policy.
To that time the Australian government excluded non-white immigrants by testing them in a language they did not know.
I have lived in non-English-speaking countries and understand how hard it is for the first generation of immigrants to operate in a second language. As any immigrant family will tell you, it is the second generation who become the native speakers of English, while all are part of the community in their own way.
My wife is an immigrant who speaks English. She has degrees in French, Russian and Chinese literature from the University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley, and the Sorbonne.
She has more letters after her name than are in her name. You would think she is the sort of well-educated person Australia would welcome. However, her Australian experience was hellish. She wanted to integrate, but Australians, by and large, would not allow that.
That said, she and I made many dear Australian friends, but because of the attitude of the community at large, we prefer to stay out of Australia and make the occasional return trip to see friends and family.
My wife and I have become expatriates not because her language skills did not allow her to integrate and take on Australian values but because the pure merinos, the Australian-born Australians, were so uniformly hostile to her.
Is Australia ready for well-educated, white-collar immigrants? Are Australians ready to compete with them for jobs?
If not, how does Australia hope to allow them to make a life for themselves in Australia? Will these well-educated, English-speaking immigrants be satisfied making beds in hotels and serving in fish-and-chip shops?
The matter of English testing falls in the field of language policy and this debate needs to be informed by experts in that field.
The English language test is a smokescreen. In our experience the real problemf for immigrants trying to integrate into Australian society is the Australians, who are denying the values of those who seek to live there.
Geoffrey Thomas, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
In Australia, we're talking about
Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone, Attorney General, Philip 'Mr. Burns' Ruddock by Paul Batey
In Australia as the government moves so far to the right of what was once right that they now believe they're dead right, we're talking about the Foreign Minister ticking off politicians in the Solomon Islands, about North Korea, about Indonesia, about a national education curriculum to save us from pinko red lefty ideologues and we're talking about state-sanctioned racism in the form of English language tests for migrants (the revenants of the White Australia Policy still haunt us)
Sydney-based Sylvia Lawson writes essays, journalism and fiction. Her most recent book is The Outside Story (Hardie Grant, 2003), a novel centred on the contested history of the Sydney Opera House.The Archibald Paradox her multi-award-winning study of the early Sydney Bulletin and its first editor, is out in a new edition from The Miegunyah Press.
She has written an article on this current issue for The New Matilda in agreeable response to an earlier article by Emma Dawson.
Why is Michael Farrell grinning ?
Does he know about Van Gogh's Ear ?
Michael Farrell (foto Nandi Chinna)
Melbourne poet, Michael Farrell has just published Break Me Ouch an A4 sized book of poetry comics . It's nutty, witty, funny and occasionally thoughtful too.
It's published by
3 Deep Publishing
Van Gogh's Ear 5: The Celebrity Edition
Van Gogh's Ear is an international anthology series based in Paris, France and published in conjunction with Allen Ginsberg's Committee on Poetry in New York City. Since its début in 2002, Van Gogh's Ear has gained considerable acclaim for its eclecticism and publishing such legends as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Yoko Ono, Tony Curtis, Xaviera Hollander, Charles Manson, and a great many more, alongside renowned poets, novelists, political activists, and never-before-heard voices from every walk of life in all parts of the world. Van Gogh's Ear is distributed in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.
The editor, Ian Ayres, describes the new issue : Van Gogh's Ear: The Celebrity Edition, which is volume 5, celebrates art, poetry, and the ultimate sex goddess of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe. There's a one-act play by Joyce Carol Oates that brings to life Marilyn's posing for the nude calendar shot, new insights from Marilyn biographer Sarah Churchwell, plus never-before-revealed Marilyn memories by her personal masseur, Ralph Roberts, friend John Gilmore, and others who actually knew her. More exciting highlights are memoirs by movie stars and celebrities such as Tony Curtis, Mamie Van Doren, Sylvia Miles, and Xaviera Hollander. Not to mention the many renowned poets, novelists, cultural icons and political activists also included in this truly international collection with contributors from Australia, India, Dubai, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Canada, the USA, Ireland, England, France, Holland, Germany, Finland, Serbia, etc. Volume 5 of Van Gogh's Ear addresses taboo, politics and the human condition from every walk of life. Plus there's a compelling letter from Patricia Nell Warren, author of best-selling novel The Front Runner , in which she warns about the negation of free speech and the rise of fascism in the USA. And a scan of a recent prison letter from Charles Manson, in which he expresses concern about what's happening to the planet, tells of how he's treated in prison, as well as how he feels about his fame and the exploitation of him in the music scene. Volume 5 is an odyssey through cultural landscapes, revealing more about our times than any internet news-source or guru ever has. Exhibiting paintings that honor the life and times of Marilyn Monroe by such artists as Demetrie Kabbaz, Werner Horvath, and Tony Curtis, this collection is a must for Marilyn fans everywhere. Due to nudes, however, along with explicit works by the world's most daring writers, i.e., the Marquis de Sade, a 'Parental Advisory' warning appears on the cover.
My copy was opened for inspection by Australian officials.
Featured Contributors:
Franklin Abbot Shane Allison Antler Jorge Artajo Joe Bacal
Dawn-Michelle Baude Barbara Beck Guy R. Beining
Kimberly Biggers Gojko Bozovic J. R. Brady Rolf Dieter Brinkman
Pam Brown Michael Brownstein Peter Cherney Sarah Churchwell
Billy Collins Dennis Cooper Barbara Costa Holly Crawford
Quentin Crisp Tony Curtis William Curtis Jen Dalton
Albert Flynn DeSilver DML Eduard Escoffet Landis Everson
Marcus Ewert Marilyn Yvonne Ford Serge Gainsbourg
Maureen Gallagher Johnny Gevalia John Gilmore John Giorno
Daphne Gottlieb Stephen Gray J. Kenneth Grider Andreas Gripp
Jane Hathaway Michael Hathaway Trebor Healey
Thomas M. Herndon Lynette S'phiwe Hlongwane
Xaviera Hollander Paul Hoover Werner Horvath Justice Howard
Gary Indiana Fred Johnston Demetrie Kabbaz Kit Kennedy
Romella D'Ore Kitchens John Kliphan Aki Lehtinen
Linda Lerner J. T. LeRoy Lyn Lifshin Jason Lynn Jayanta Mahapatra
Norman Mailer Charles Manson Lori A. May Ben Mazer
Gabrielle McIntire Sharon Mesmer Robin Metz Sylvia Miles
Peter Minter Pete Mullineaux Eileen Myles Thom Nickels
Joyce Carol Oates Ulick O'Connor Molly Peacock
Daniel Pendergrass Robert Peters Felice Picano Jane Piirto
Jennifer Pinard Wayne Ray Dee Rimbaud Ralph Roberts
Bob Rosenthal Lauren Russell Albert Russo Marquis de Sade
Aram Saroyan Richard Siken Mark Terrill Paul Trachtenberg
John Updike Mamie Van Doren Phillip Ward Patricia Nell Warren
Lewis Warsh Regina Weinreich Janean Williams A. D. Winans
Saint James Harris Wood Jeffrey Cyphers Wright Gerald Zipper
It's available from French Connection Press
Christian Bök in Sydney
(foto - Sharon Harris)
Christian Bök (born Book in Toronto 1966) is a Canadian experimental poet. He is a sound poet best known for holding the world record of the fastest rendition of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. He performed this double-speed live on WFMU Radio, New York, where he also performed other compositions derived from made-up languages used for Canadian science fiction shows.
Eunoia is probably the work for which he is most famous. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry at Coach House Books, Eunoia is a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters, and this work was a bestseller in Canada and won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. One of its sections is chapter e for René Crevel.
'Vowels', a poem that appears in Eunoia was featured in the lyrics of a song on the EP 'A Quick Fix of Melancholy' by the Norwegian rock band 'Ulver' in 2003. Bök is also the author of Crystallography (Coach House Books, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia. He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's cubes and Lego bricks. Bök is a Ph.D. graduate from York University in Toronto. He teaches at the University of Calgary. He has also worked in sci-fi television, designing artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. He lives in Calgary.
Christian Bök's publications:
Crystallography (1994) ISBN 1552451194
Eunoia (2001) ISBN 1933368152
Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (2002)
The Cyborg Opera (forthcoming)
Christian Bök will be presenting his work
at UTS this Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday October 3 5pm
UTS Building 6 (Design and Architecture Building),
Level 3, Room 21
Enter from Harris Street steps
beneath the pedestrian bridge.
Free entry, all welcome.
Laurie Duggan on nzepc
Laurie Duggan reading poems in a park in Auckland, March 2006
The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre has just published some pages on Laurie Duggan's visit to Auckland in March.
Australian poet Laurie Duggan read and spoke at the University of Auckland 23-24 March 2006. He gave an autobiographical talk 'Amaze Your Friends' which subsequently appeared in ka mate ka ora #2. Laurie was presented with a Tapa Notebook and read with local poets and student writers at STRATA #5. Next day he recorded a selection of poems for nzepc archives.
(Adelaide writers Ken Bolton and Cath Kenneally are currently in new Zealand. They launched the site last week.)
Laurie Duggan's most recent book is The Passenger (UQP, 2006). He was Writer in Residence in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University, Queensland, 2005-06 and relocated to Kent, England, in August 2006.
Last days in Teneriffe, Brisbane : Laurie Duggan at home in July, 2006, a few weeks before moving to the U.K.
Spring things to do
Steve Evans' annual survey of what poets are reading,
Attention Span has been released for 2006.
Steve Evans - a rose is a rose is a rrose
Steve Evans is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, where he teaches courses on critical theory, poetry and poetics, and the avant-garde. He coordinates the New Writing Series, is a contributing editor for The Poker and tends Third Factory website.
The Poetry Picture Show
poems on films, films on poems
with JS Harry, John Tranter,
Kate Lilley, David Prater & others
one night only :
FRIDAY OCTOBER 6th
At 6pm
Old Darlington School
(entry by donation)
Eurobeat the ridiculously funny, musical send-up of the annual Eurovision Song Contest is currently playing at the State Theatre in Sydney. Coincidentally, it stars the gorgeous daughter of my blended family, Julia Zemiro.
Sometimes, I'm hard to please, I hardly ever go to musical theatre, generally find self-described comedy unfunny, but I laughed throughout this entirely upbeat, hoot of a show. Book through Ticketmaster.
The Lost Echo
directed by Barrie Kosky co-written with Tom Wright
12 stories of love, lust, madness and revenge
38 of Australia's finest performers
8 hours experienced in two parts.
The Lost Echo is about how the world, human beings and nature are all in a constant of flux and change.
It's about how we love. How passions change us. It's about how desire can destroy.
Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Lost Echo is a kaleidoscope of music, text, dance, and image using the music of Cole Porter, John Dowland and Franz Schubert.
I have seen Part One – four hours of crazy, intense, marvelous theatre and have booked my ticket for Part Two.
At the Sydney Theatre Company
Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Part Two began with the gruelling tale of The Bacchae ('The Song of Bacchus' -isn't that Euripides, not Ovid ?) and the the demise of Pentheus, dismembered and cannibalised by the female followers of Bacchus, his head is returned to Cadmus by an incredibly demented Agave. All this godly gore and human misery performed in an over-sized urban male washroom and toilet.
'The Lost Echo' concluded with 'The Song of Orpheus' interpreted, incredibly, via Franz Schubert's song cycle 'Die Winterreise' (The Winter Journey). All ultra camp, amazingly choreographed, burlesque, kitsch, post modern, pop, funk (snatches of 'Blame It on The Boogie' accompanied by action freezes) and classical. The theatre Barrie Kosky makes, to use an old cliche, defies description. It is stunning. It is THEATRE.
'The Lost Echo' closes tonight, Saturday 30th September.
NEW READING SERIES IN ADELAIDE
THE LEE MARVIN READINGS :
at Gallery de la Catessen:
9 Anster St., off Waymouth
Mondays 7.30 for 8PM
10th Reading October 2
: LEE MARVIN ON THE LAM :
Jordan D'Arsie
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Ashley Graetz
Bern Smith
Naomi Horridge
:LEE MARVIN IN AN ETUDE BLUE :
Peter Rose
Stephen Lawrence
Moya Costello
Paul Hoban
Andrea Jorss
12th Reading October 16
:LEE MARVIN IN AN ETUDE BLEU :
Stephen Whittington
Linda Marie Walker
Shannon Burns
Carol Lefevre
: LEE MARVIN IN A BROWN STUDY :
Ken Bolton
Tracy Crisp
Miriel Lenore
Teri Hoskin
: LEE MARVIN ON A BENDER :
Bel Schenk
Heather Johnson
Cath Kenneally
Khail Jureidini
Steve Evans (not the U.S. Steve Evans)
Sasha : some further notes
Mark Young has sent me a copy of a poetry pamphlet from the mid–70's Patterns series. Mark's poem is an emulation of Arthur Rimbaud. The cover drawing is by Sasha (who also had a poem published in the series).
Over a period of time in the late 1990's, Sasha sent a group of self-portraits to Nicholas Pounder.
In Hanoi
While the United States Of America's punitive embargo on Vietnam was still in place and the internal process of doi moi had begun as a 'renovation' of Vietnamese society (something like Mikhail Gorbachev's 'glas nost' program in the USSR), I travelled to Hanoi to visit a friend, Sue Howe, who had been living there for some time, working as a teacher at the University for Foreign Languages, sponsored by Australian Aid Abroad. Sue obtained an invitation from the Ministry of Education for me to conduct some classes in English on Australian poetry – that was the only way to get a visa in those days. Not long after I'd arrived in Hanoi in the north, Sasha landed in Ho Chi Minh City, in the south. About a week later and with (miraculously) only one minor scrape with the authorities to report, he joined us in the Giang Vo flats.
Giang Vo, 1991
We met the very hospitable staff at the Vietnamese Womens Publishing House and spent time with the poet Nguyen Thi Hong, and we also visited the official Writers Association.
At the time, these groups were extremely impoverished and did not have access to western writing apart from occasional magazines like 'Time', brought in to Hanoi by NGO workers, and Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' and some Shakespeare – both of which had been translated into Vietnamese from English via Russian and had become new versions of the original texts. Both groups gave us lists of books they would like us to send from Australia.
On my return to Sydney, I organised a benefit reading at 'Writers in the Park' at the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe to raise money to buy books for the Vietnamese writers. Tom Thompson, then the publisher at Angus & Robertson donated a box of the Australian classics and modern poets he was publishing. I bought the books, packaged them up and then tried to get the Department of Foreign Affairs to freight them up to Hanoi. Of course, even with contacts in the Australian embassy, including the Ambassador to Vietnam, the department in Canberra refused assistance. Around that time, Sasha had decided to travel to Moscow and was heading up via Hanoi. He carted the boxes of books off with him, with some cash to pay for excess baggage.
Hoa (translator), Vu Tu Nam, Vietnam Writers Association – Sasha, delivering the books
Some years later (I think in 1997 when Sasha was returning to Vietnam for an AsiaLink residency) he claimed, in his inimitable manner, in the pages of the Australian Book Review to have been solely responsible for my altruistic project - an undertaking that had taken considerable time and energy to co–ordinate. Subsequently, Sasha and I engaged in a minor public stoush in the correspondence pages of the magazine. Sasha had a way of bragging about 'his' radicalisms that was sometimes unthinking. Of course, after a couple of months silence, we reconciled. And just now, when I looked for copies of that correspondence I seem to have mislaid it. (Although it can probably be found in the Mitchell Library archive).
Sasha Soldatow 2005
Sasha...
Sasha Soltadow, choked by the bureaucracy, in his Special Broadcasting Service editing booth, mid 1980s
In 1983, before homosexuality was legalised in New South Wales, the Oxford Street gay bar, Club 80 was raided by police. There was a shocked reaction from people who frequented the bars and saunas. Sasha Soldatow produced a pamphlet that was critical of the response. It provides an important historical analysis of the early history of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, and the pursuit of the gay dollar to the detriment of the development of sexual politics which broadly challenges the power relationships in society. You can read What Is This Gay Community Shit? here on Takver's site. (It includes Sasha's commentary on the pamphlet from 2001.)
Takver, who first met Sasha in 1974, last saw him at an Anarchist and Autonomist Gathering at Melbourne University in 2001. Over several months during that year they worked on updating notes on the pamphlet and on Sasha's biographical material on the neglected Australian poet Harry Hooton, whose Poet of the 21st Century : Collected Poems Sasha edited for Angus & Robertson publishers in 1990.
'Be realistic – demand the impossible'. Slogan from walls of the Sorbonne, Paris, May 1968
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Really brief notesfrom the Princes Highway
Why is Michael Farrell grinning ?Does he know abou...